It’s All “Production” Now

Plan, Organize, Communicate, Execute, Repeat.

“Post” Begins in Pre-Production

- or –

Free your mind (and the rest will follow) En Vogue / Funky Divas / 1992

Mantra

Challenge

Acquisition Editorial Edit-Ready Material

Cuts for Review

The shortest path between two points is a straight line

Through the manipulation of elections we will bend space-time to create a

wormhole, traversing two distant points in the universe in seconds

We call it…

West Coast 20+ Avid Edit 30+ TB ISIS 50+ TB NAS* Live Review

East Coast 20 Stage Cams 2-4 Field Cams File Ingest Mac XDCam Ingest Win Transcoder Link Agg / Load Balance <20 TB NAS <50 TB Shuttle

Native

HQ

LQ

XD-Direct X 3

PDW-U2

PDW-U2

PDW-U2

NAS

VANTAGE

PDW-U2 MacPro

XD Cam

Disc

F3 / Alexa

Drive

MacPro

NAS

LQ

LQ

HQ HQ

LQ

Native NAS

LQ

HQ

LQ

East Coast

MacPro

MacPro

LQ

HQ

LQ

HQ

Live Review

Unexpected Challenges

• Bandwidth in multiples of 10Mbps

• Extra Camera Formats

• Storage Throughput

• Transcode Throughput

• Ingest Glitches

The Future is Near

• Camera to WAN Capture

– Direct to Private / Collocated Cloud

• Edit & Processing tools can be hosted private, collocated or hybrid

• Need more, better, faster, stronger WAN access

Thank You